there’s a swedish proverb that says, ‘joy shared is joy doubled; sorrow shared is sorrow halved.’ it’s my favorite quote and my hope for this blog is to double joys and halve sorrows.

recovery costs (literally & emotionally)

Let it be known that what prompted me to start this blog post was a lawnscaping business card delicately placed in between our mail box and the flag thingy. No other mail box on our street that I could see had one. Is this passive aggressive or aggressive aggressive LMK. Generally the lawn is all…

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california family trip & thoughts on business

Last month, we got back from California on a trip with my family!! My parents are extremely generous and have included me and Jared on several amazing trips. This trip was unlike any other due to the chaos that was the weather, plans falling through, and a really unfortunate case of food poisoning from food…

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a sticky brain + body image

Sometimes my brain gets sticky. I get frustrated with my anxiety when heavy and/or unwanted thoughts keep circling right back up to the forefront of my brain. Calling that “my sticky brain” is a helpful way for me to add a degree of separation. Which often allows me to reflect vs. react, which is typically…

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my relationship with cookie dough

“It’s complicated” is how I felt for a long time. I grew up in family that loves sweets. We often baked and my mom was really great about providing me a wide variety of foods. Sweets were never inherently bad, but I remember feeling like dessert was the ultimate, pinnacle of satisfaction with eating and…

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the bachelorette and eating disorder recovery

Tonight, the Bachelorette starts and I am pumped. I also am grateful. For the past few weeks, every time I turned on the Bachelor in Paradise (lol), I legitimately felt gratitude stirring in my heart. Which sounds ridiculous if you have ever seen BIP, but it’s where I am at. Every week day, I sit…

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life without compulsive exercise

Years later, I am still resting and learning to live in my body. There’s nothing about compulsive exercise that is healthy. I used to use my body, but it was all to live outside my body and for a certain body. Now, I am practicing to live inside and with my body. Compulsive Exercise can…

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one of the worst parts of having an ED is the constant ED voice😵‍💫🥴🫨🥵🤯🤬😰 something I have been talking about a lot in my client sessions recently🤍🤍 every single eating disorder will require eating more *something* to recover. what about swapping regular cookie dough with this cottage cheese concoction is appealing? anyone who has lived with an ED knows that your brain is in a never ending game of chess, a never ending mental gymnastics tournament, and it always always is running through millions of situations trying to get it’s way. seeing @taylorswift on her eras tour was *almost* as life changing as ED recovery 😏😂 tonight I wrote a whole blog post inspired by my overgrown & neglected lawn and somehow tied it back to all thing’s recovering from an eating disorder. betcha can’t believe that coming from me?!?🤪😂😉 in a world that normalizes eating less, I want to scream from the rooftops the very serious, sad, and harmful consequences that restricting has. it effects not just the whole body, but the whole person. one: it’s okay to want to be wanted, that isn’t wrong.